Mirage Kitten Hackers Use Fake Coding Challenges to Deploy NodeRabbit and PollCat RATs
Tue Sep 01 2026
Development
Malware
Social Engineering
gbhackers.com
Iran-linked threat actor Mirage Kitten is targeting software developers with fake recruitment assessments that hide two newly identified cross-platform remote access trojans: NodeRabbit and PollCat. The campaign uses recruiter impersonation on LinkedIn and other job-search platforms, weaponized Node.js projects, and cloud-hosted ZIP archives to gain covert access to developer endpoints across Windows, Linux, and macOS. […]
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